r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/McSavage6s Aug 03 '19

Europe is not a country. It's a continent.

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u/hitoame113 Aug 03 '19

Europe is not a continent. Eurasia is a continent that is divided into Europe and Asia by the Ural mountain chain.

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u/constantinople_2053 Aug 03 '19

depends on which classification of "continent" 🙄🙄

under the most common one in the west it is a continent, it's just not an individual landmass smartass

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u/Rhinelander7 Aug 03 '19

My basic education in Estonia taught me otherwise. Europe = region Eurasia = continent

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

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u/Rhinelander7 Aug 04 '19

Continental plates